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Sergeant Arson

by Sam Cottle

The year is nineteen ninety-six. It's Frank Arson's forty-seventh birthday, he feels he wants to finally give up his years of corrupt dealings on the streets of Swindon, and head off somewhere hot and sunny for his retirement. He's found a new love; the mysterious Charisse. The only question is whether or not Arson can stitch-up his boss, evade his criminal connections, and leave Swindon with Charisse forever before his birthday's over.

BugHouse: Book One (Book Trade)

by Steve Lafler

Tenor saxophone maestro Jimmy Watts leads his talented band of bugs from the swing era into the uncharted maelstrom of Bebop. As he and his band mates claw their way to the top of the jazz world, they must fight the temptation to be consumed by addiction to a substance known as "Bug Juice.” Inspired by the postwar explosion of Bohemian cultural stylings from artists as diverse as jazz trumpeter Miles Davis and Beat avatar William Burroughs, cartoonist Steve Lafler delivers his indigo-tinged mas... more

The Summer of 1957

by Judith E. Powell

.In the summer of 1957, eight-year-old Penelope Evans was sexually molested. Two months later, the man who molested her was found dead in his car from a gunshot wound to the head. It was ruled a suicide. Now thirty-six years later, Elizabeth Scott, the granddaughter of the dead man and a police investigator, wonders why her beloved grandfather would commit suicide. She is intent on finding out if it really was suicide or if he was actually murdered. Unaware of Penelope's experience in 1957, E... more

The Diary of Anne Monroe

by Heidi Andrews

Margaret an adopted 13 year old moves into her birth mothers childhood home and finds her diary underneath a floorboard and after reading the diary she realizes that it belongs to her birth mother and later goes in search of her against her parents wishes.

A Kidnapping Revival

by L. H. McIntosh

A kidnapping fueled by hate in the stealth of night threatens to derail the faith of the victim’s husband, a preacher, who has his own demons to fight. Add to this other crimes and bizarre ransom demands. The husband’s life skids out of control while the fate of the wife is unknown. Will she survive? Will she be allowed to return to her husband and child? Will he survive? Will their faith endure to the end? Detectives, led by the hus... more

The Initiation of Lady de Winter

by Crystal McKinnis Allen

How did a nice lady like Ann Audley become Lady de Winter, palace spy and arch-villainess of The Three Musketeers? Was she always a dangerous woman? Where did she come from and what is her story? The year is 1623. Europe quakes with dangerous ideas emerging from the halls of science and an unending holy war directed from the citadels of power. Lady Ann avoids political intrigue by living with her husband and toddler in the English countryside. But when a Vatican agent arrives on her... more

The Debutante (and the Bomb Factory)

by Jonathan Canter

Nurse Kit Carson's Knife & Gun Club series

by L.S. Collison

Kit Carson, RN, is a single mom nurse trying to save lives and find love in America's New Wild West. A five episode series, with potential for expansion.

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A Maiden's Prayer

by Srianthi Perera

A Maiden's Prayer examines Sri Lankan beliefs in the power of astrology and the role an individual’s character plays in precipitating destiny. It centers on an extended family trying to marry off a rich male relative. Berty Rajakaruna debates whether marriage is worth the price of reclaiming his inherited estate from the clutches of his scheming sister. The estate is special because it was founded by an ancestor who was a Mudaliyar, comparable to a country squire, under British rule. The novel... more

Presence, the Play

by William E. Jefferson

Presence, the Play offers a penetrating perspective on the vital role personal presence plays in the essence of life. This timely, captivating novel speaks to a growing hunger for a way of life that’s real and tangible, the opposite of an artificial existence lived in a realm of mediated connectivity. The protagonist of Presence, the Play is a playwright and monk named Script who lives on the Isle of Estillyen. On the opening night of Presence, Script’s long-awaited play, he suffers a devast... more

The Lion's Cub

by L M Zorn

Alexandros, a prince of Macedon, has been a pawn in his parents’ battle for power from his earliest memories. His whole life in the cut-throat world of the royal court has been spent walking the knife edge of their warring demands, balancing his duty to King Philippos’ legacy with his obligations to his mother Olympias and her fierce ambitions, rarely seen as a person in his own right. While tending his horse, he has a chance encounter with Hephaistion, a boy from the back hills who says exactl... more

She Remembered

by Rita H Rowe

Some memories are best left forgotten, but how much can one woman go through to get them back? When Elena, beautiful and broken, awakes to find herself next to the body of a man, her past becomes entangled with the present, awakening memories that she has been searching for, all her life. Abandoned by her mother, Elena has dealt with terrible dreams for most of her young life, dreams she can never remember. Her love for a boy, Luke, has Elena envisioning a bright future, but after a fateful ... more

Dver Vremeni

by Ekaterina Yakovina

The author describes various amazing spaces, unexpectedly mixes the past and the future, fantastic and reality. The author describes various amazing spaces, unexpectedly mixes the past and the future, fantastic and reality. A girl who knows how to pass through the door of time; the basket of dreams that a husband brought to his wife; a second chance in another space; the life of shadows and much more in this book. The book also contains illustrations. (Разные пространства, разные планеты, но од... more

The Peacemaker's Code

by Deepak Malhotra

Professor Kilmer, a renowned historian of war and diplomacy, is collected from his home and whisked off to Washington, D.C. Thrust into the highest levels of government as an adviser to the President, the young historian must come to terms with the seemingly impossible, figure out how to navigate a world where not everything is as it seems, and use all the skills and knowledge he has acquired in his life to help save humanity from a conflict of truly historic proportions. A novel that re-exam... more

Nights of the Moonless Sky: A Tale from the Vijayanagara Empire

by N S Vishwanath

In sixteenth century South India, Rajanna, the seventy-year-old patriarch of the majestic Madhuvana estate, has died. An archaic ritual of sati is encouraged by the elders, and Rajanna’s widows are expected to be cremated alive. But Aadarshini, Rajanna’s third wife, and mother of his heir, refuses to die. The twenty-two-year old escapes in a quest to take control of her own destiny. She must survive and find her young son who was separated from her during the botche... more

Calm the F**k Down! A Covid Bedtime Story

by Ivana B. Dunne

In our politically polarized era, at least we can all agree that Covid sucks. This politically incorrect bedtime book is for everyone living in the time of COVID. Absolutely profane and funny, it embraces the familiar and paranoid woes of making it through a day so you're able to go to bed for the night. Fall-on-the-floor funny (from a safe social distance), this book is a great gift for adults of all ages to help them take a deep breath of fresh (COVID-free) air, share a huge belly la... more

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